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Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will "wind down operations" after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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Without playing/seeing what Horses is like, it's difficult to evaluate Valve's decision.
That being said there is tons of weird and fucked up NSFW stuff on Steam.
Banning a transgressive game seemingly without any explicit content seems excessive.
From my perspective, this is another reason it's a bad idea to have an American company (even a somewhat user-focused one like Valve) be a steward of modern digital services. Local culture puts too much emphasis on the theatrical elements of morality. Not to mention the challenges faced by the locals in areas such as corruption and rule of law (Valve trying to cheat on refunds, adding mandatory arbitration clauses, Soviet-style kangaroo courts essentially, and operating unlicensed gambling schemes).
It was rejected because in the build they submitted for review a minor was riding a naked person with a horse mask and valve saw that as sexual which i find fair considering ponyplay being a thing. I understand valve wanting to distance themselves from anything involving a minor that could be seen as sexual
The issue with the child was fixed in a later build. A build that Valve doesn’t want to review.
You are really giving off "it's not pedophilia, it's hebephilia" vibes here...
Yes, technically, they fixed an issue, that doesn't fix how it was able to become an issue in the first place. The developers are either going for "very, very thinly disguised fetish" or completely absentminded outrage farming in a very bad way.
Didn't think bumping the child's age to a twenty something old women counts as hebephilia. But hey, you're the fucking expert here.
https://www.horses.wtf/BannedFromSteam/
Nope, now you are giving it off more.
nervously laughs while moving away
If that's the case I can't really fault Valve here.